Recommended apps for Android in 2023

AmarendraAugust 16, 2015

2 23 minutes read

Here is a mega list of Android applications that are needed for every phone. Do note that we have not included quite a few well known official applications like Facebook, Whatsapp, Official Twitter. The first part of the list has applications that are absolutley recommended for every Android user and the second list has apps that are used by those who squeeze as much from the phone as they can.

Bitwarden

Manage, store, secure, and share unlimited passwords across unlimited devices from anywhere. Bitwarden delivers open source password management solutions to everyone, whether at home, at work, or on the go.

Price: Free
Link: Play Store
Android: 5.0+
In-app purchases: No
Rating: 4.3 (31k ratings)
Installs: Over 1 million
Contains ads: No
Size: 45M

TV Time

TV Time is the tool you need to help organize all the shows and movies you love. * Add the shows and movies you want to watch across all platforms * Receive alerts and notifications when new episodes and movies are available * See where your shows are available * Keep track of what you’re watching now – all in one place * Build a complete library of what you’ve previously watched * Manage your shows and movies with a personalized calendar * Create a to-do list of episodes and movies to watch later * Get personalized show recommendations based on what you’ve watched * Vote on your favorite characters and rate episodes and movies * See what other fans are saying, spoiler-free and read reviews

Price: Free
Link: Play Store
Android: 5.0+
In-app purchases: ₹75.00 – ₹17,900.00 per item
Rating: 4.2 (457k ratings)
Installs: Over 10 million
Contains ads: No
Size: 55M

Strava

Track your fitness with Strava activity tracker. Record activity, map your favourite bike trail or run & analyse your training with all the stats – for free! Triathlon training, post-work runner or simply love going for a bike ride? Turn your phone or GPS watch into a sophisticated cycle or running tracker with Strava. Try out a new trail with distance tracker Strava & join millions of active people!

Price: Free
Link: Play Store
Android: 5.0+
In-app purchases: ₹190.00 – ₹5,200.00 per item
Rating: 4.3 (735k ratings)
Installs: Over 50 million
Contains ads: No
Size: Varies

Spark

Spark brings great email experience for professionals and their teams. It’s an effortless, beautiful, and collaborative mail app. 🚀

Price: Free
Link: Play Store
Android: 7.0+
In-app purchases: No
Rating: 4.5 (62k ratings)
Installs: Over 1 million
Contains ads: No
Size: 359M

Habitica

Input your Habits, your Daily goals, and your To-Do list, and then create a custom avatar. Check off tasks to level up your avatar and unlock features such as armor, pets, skills, and even quests! Fight monsters with friends to keep each other accountable, and use your gold on in-game rewards, like equipment, or custom awards, like watching an episode of your favorite TV show. Flexible, social, and fun, Habitica is the perfect way to motivate yourself to accomplish anything.

Price: Free
Link: Play Store
Android: 5.0+
In-app purchases: ₹65.00 – ₹4,050.00 per item
Rating: 4.5 (21k ratings)
Installs: Over 1 million
Contains ads: Yes
Size: 18Mb

Todoist

Todoist is used by 20 million people to organize, plan and collaborate on projects, both big and small.

Price: Free
Link: Play Store
Android: Varies
In-app purchases: ₹50.00 – ₹2,249.00 per item
Rating: 4.5 (235k ratings)
Installs: Over 10 million
Contains ads: No
Size: Varies

Wallet

Wallet is a market leading personal finance manager, built to help you save money, plan for the future, and see all your finances in one place. With you can track your daily spending automatically with bank synchronisation, dive into weekly reports and charts, plan your shopping, and share specific features and data with loved ones.

Price: Free
Link: Play Store
Android: 5.0+
In-app purchases: ₹35.00 – ₹9,700.00 per item
Rating: 4.7 (212k ratings)
Installs: Over 5 million
Contains ads: No
Size: 36M

uDemy

Skill up to success. Udemy is a leading destination for online courses that empowers you to grow professionally and personally. Get the app to explore our expansive library of thousands of topics with cutting-edge online video courses in Coding, Development, Python, Java, Business, Marketing, SEO, SEM, Drawing, Photography, and much more.

Price: Free
Link: Play Store
Android: 6.0+
In-app purchases: ₹75.00 – ₹17,900.00 per item
Rating: 4.7 (340k ratings)
Installs: Over 10 million
Contains ads: No
Size: 31M

Smallcase

Smallcases are modern investment products that help you build low-cost, long-term, and diversified portfolios. Each smallcase is a professionally managed portfolio (or basket) of stocks/ETFs that reflects a theme, idea or strategy.

Price: Free
Link: Play Store
Android: 5.0+
In-app purchases: No
Rating: 4.6 (53k ratings)
Installs: Over 1 million
Contains ads: No
Size: 35M

Kite

Zerodha’s flagship trading platform Kite Web as an Android app! Clean & intuitive UI, super fast and super light back-end for all your investment and trading needs. ₹0 brokerage for investments and flat ₹20 for F&O trading.

Price: Free
Link: Play Store
Android: 5.0+
In-app purchases: No
Rating: 4.3 (268k ratings)
Installs: Over 10 million
Contains ads: No
Size: 25M

Coin by zerodha

Invest in commission-free direct mutual fund schemes across 40 fund houses. Join 2.5+ lakh investors who have invested over 4500 crores.

Price: Free
Link: Play Store
Android: 5.0+
In-app purchases: No
Rating: 4.4 (17k ratings)
Installs: Over 1 million
Contains ads: No
Size: 24Mb

Firefox

Introducing our latest release of Firefox for Android browser — Firefox Daylight. This version of the Firefox web browser is dramatically redesigned to be faster, easy to use, customizable and private. Firefox browser features Enhanced Tracking Protection on by default blocking thousands of annoying ad trackers and malware — making your experience more secure, and a lot faster too. Firefox is also the only major browser backed by a not-for-profit fighting to give you more openness, transparency and control of your life online. Download the Firefox for Android browser today and keep the internet open for tomorrow.

Price: Free
Link: Play Store
Android: 5.0+
In-app purchases: No
Rating: 4.3 (4.3 million ratings)
Installs: Over 100 million
Contains ads: No
Size: Varies

Licious

Licious is the ultimate destination to buy premium and high-quality fresh meat online. It’s a one-stop online meat shop for fresh meat, chicken, fish, eggs, mutton & seafood delivery.

Price: Free
Link: Play Store
Android: 6.0+
In-app purchases: No
Rating: 4.0 (63k ratings)
Installs: Over 5 million
Contains ads: No
Size: 39Mb

Cred

Easily check credit score free, pay credit card bill, monthly rent online, education free using credit card on CRED & get upto 100% cashback. Use CRED Coins to win exclusive rewards, big prizes, offers.

Price: Free
Link: Play Store
Android: 5.0+
In-app purchases: No
Rating: 4.7 (790k ratings)
Installs: Over 10 million
Contains ads: No
Size: 53Mb

Backdrops

Sift through hundreds of original wallpapers hand crafted in house by the the Backdrops team. Enjoy exclusive walls designed specifically for your devices. You won’t find these backgrounds in any other app.

Price: Free
Link: Play Store
Android: 4.4+
In-app purchases: ₹65.00 – ₹220.00 per item
Rating: 4.0 (38k ratings)
Installs: Over 1 million
Contains ads: Yes
Size: 12Mb

Asana

Asana is the easiest way to manage team projects and your individual tasks. From the small stuff to the big picture, Asana organizes work so you and your teams are clear on what to do, when to do it, and how to get it done.

Price: Free
Link: Play Store
Android: 7.1+
In-app purchases: No
Rating: 4.2 (35k ratings)
Installs: Over 1 million
Contains ads: No
Size: 21Mb

StoryGraph

Get smart personalized recommendations: Our machine learning AI is like your trusted go-to friend for book recommendations. It’ll understand your reading preferences and find the best books for you. Simple tracking and insightful stats: Easily track and learn about your reading habits with our wide range of charts and graphs. See how your reading develops over time and use that to help you pick better books. Reading Challenges: Want to read one book from every country in the world? Or how about read a book per week across a range of genres? Our reading challenges feature help you set up personal goals or join in with others.

Price: Free
Link : https://bit.ly/3FMpadz
Android: 7.0+
In-app purchases: ₹449.00 – ₹4,399.00 per item
Rating: 4.6 (700 ratings)
Installs: Over 100k
Contains ads: No
Size: Varies

DiskUsage

DiskUsage , as you see in the screenshot above, gives a very detailed view of storage usage and this helps a lot if you want to clear files to free disc space and are not sure which file/folder is taking up space. And thanks to the blocks layout, just one look and you will get to know which file/folder is taking up space.

Price: free
Link : http://bit.ly/1oqAjq8
Android: Varies
In-app purchases: no
Size: varies
Rating: 4.7 (45k ratings)
Installs: Over 1 million
Contains ads: No

With over 100K active communities, on Reddit you can laugh, think, discuss and dig deep into topics that matter to you. Reddit is free and open for everyone to post, share, vote and discuss.

Price: Free
Link: Play Store
Android: Varies
In-app purchases: ₹80.00 – ₹26,000.00 per item
Rating: 4.3 (2.4 million ratings)
Installs: Over 50 million
Contains ads: Yes
Size: Varies

Norton 360

Norton 360 for mobile provides powerful layers of phone protection and top-level mobile security for your Android device. It combines security and antivirus features to help protect against ransomware, malware, spyware, and other online privacy threats so you can bank, browse and shop online with full privacy and peace of mind. And, with our secure, global VPN servers, you can encrypt your internet traffic on the go before accessing your favorite apps and websites.

Price: Free
Link: Play Store
Android: 8.0+
In-app purchases: ₹65.00 – ₹9,200.00 per item
Rating: 4.3 (1.6 million ratings)
Installs: Over 50 million
Contains ads: No
Size: 56Mb

Lookout Security & Antivirus

It it a known fact that Android is prone to malware and other security issues. For those who are security consious, Lookout is one of the best security/antivirus applications available on Android. You can scan applications and data on your phone, setup ‘Find My Phone’ to track lost phone, take a contact backup, setup theft alerts, make use of privacy advisor and make sure that you are not providing too much of personal data to apps, do a remote wipe and lock when you lose your phone.

Price: Free
Link : http://bit.ly/198PHiS
Android: 5.0+
In-app purchases: Yes
Rating: 4.5 (1.12 million ratings)
Installs: Over 100 million
Contains ads: No
Size: 16Mb

Apple Music

Experience music like never before. Apple Music gets you closer to the songs, albums and artists you love. Get unlimited access to millions of songs and your entire music library. All ad-free and available across all your devices. Try 3 months free today. There’s no commitment – cancel anytime.

Price: Free
Link: Play Store
Android: Varies
In-app purchases: No
Rating: 3.7 (454k ratings)
Installs: Over 50 million
Contains ads: No
Size: Varies

Tapatalk

Online forum is a place where people form a community and discuss on various topics. There are sub categories based on topics, there are discussion boards, there are message inboxes. Logging in to half a dozen to talk/discuss is a headache. Tapatalk connects you to such forums and people that/who share your own passions and interests. If you dont know what forum to subscribe to, you can search for forums based on your interestes and subscribe to the forums.

price: free
link : http://bit.ly/1aIgEXK
Android : 5.0+
In-app purchases: ₹55.28 – ₹2,450.00 per item
Rating: 4.2 (298k ratings)
Installs: Over 10 million
Contains ads: Yes
Size: 25M

9gag

9Gag.com is go-to webpage for funny memes, gifs and viral videos. 9gag application for Android gives you access to best collection of these photos and videos for free. You can also vote for content, join discussions with community, share content on other social networks. Given how much this one relieves stress, we highly recommend this application.

Link : http://bit.ly/3nwki5W
Size: 22Mb
Price: Free
Android : 5.0+
In-app purchases : ₹75.00 – ₹8,700.00 per item
Rating: 4.4 (1.695 million ratings)
Installs: Over 10 million
Contains ads: Yes

Airdroid

This is another application that we highly recommend. Simplicity of sharing content between phone and PC is one of the best features of Android. What if this is made even simpler? What if you don’t even have to connect the phone to PC to share content? What if you can control the phone from the PC without connecting using cables? AidDroid can help you do these tasks and more. With AirDroid, you can remotely access your phone or tablet‘s files, notifications, messages, camera, location and many other things on a computer, from anywhere. Best part is that this works on Windows, Mac, Chromebook and Linux.

Link: https://bit.ly/3qwAiXu
Android : 4.0+
Size: 46Mb
Price: free
Android: Varies
In-app purchases: ₹10.00 – ₹14,600.00 per item
Rating: 3.9 (613k ratings)
Installs: Over 10 million
Contains ads: Yes

ASTRO file manager

This application is one of the oldest, best, highest rated and most feature rich file managers for Android. You can not only access files on your smartphone, you can also access files that are saved on your Facebook, Google Drive, Dropbox, Box and SkyDrive cloud storage. There is a built in app backup feature and a task killer. You can also access files that are on your computer (if connected to same network). Best part is that ASTRO indexes the files that are on a non-local storage so that you can search for files even though you are not connected to the network (though, you cannot open the files without network connection).

Link: https://bit.ly/3GuXH0Z
Price : Free
Android: 5+
In-app purchases: No
Size: 8.5M
Rating: 4.3 (634k ratings)
Installs: Over 50 million
Contains ads: Yes

Buffer

A must have application for bloggers who want to send tweet/post at specific time. You can schedule when and on what days a tweet/post need to be sent and buffer will do the rest. You also get analytics to check which posts have wider reach. With support for twitter analytics, Facebook analytics and LinkedIn stats, you get pretty accurate stats. You can share to Twitter, Facebook, Google+, LinkedIn and App.net from Buffer. Buffer works from news apps like Flipboard, Zite, Taptu, TweetDeck, Evernote, Pocket, Instapaper, Pulse, Feedly, UberSocial, Plume, Seesmic, Google Currents and almost all other reader apps. You also get Twitter analytics, Facebook analytics & LinkedIn stats.

Link: http://bit.ly/1pJs5Xc
Price: Free
Android: 5.0+
In-app purchases: ₹440.00 – ₹9,200.00 per item
Size: 23M
Rating: 4.0 (46k ratings)
Installs: Over 1 million
Contains ads: Yes

Evernote

Started way back in 2008, Evernote is still one of the best cross platform note taking applications available for Android/iOS/Windows Phone/Windows/OS X. This application has generated so much of revenue that Evernote Corporation followed it up with five applications ( Web Clipper, Food, Skitch, Penultimate, Scannable). Yet, with more than 50 million downloads and superb collaboration features, this one is the most used note and collaboration tool. Using Evernote, you can take notes, create projects, add text, photos, PDFs, create and share workspaces for collaboration, create to-do lists, create agendas for meetings, create expense reports using receipts, bills and invoices that are saved periodically and even save reservations and tickets for trip planning.

Price: Free
Link : http://bit.ly/1ftOvbd
Android: Varies
In-app purchases: ₹59.82 – ₹6,200.00 per item
Rating: 4.2 (1.66 million ratings)
Installs: Over 1 million
Contains ads: No

Goodreads

For avvid book readers like myself, Goodreads is the only solid social networking platform and its a damn good one. There are countless book reviews, there are book recommendations, you can tell the world what book(s) you are currently reading and share progress, your thoughs. You can start discussion about a book or an author or you can do chit-chat. There are challenges, there are polls. GoodReads for Android is the official application that connects bookworms to the social network. If you read a lot of books and never heard of Goodreads, head to www.goodreads.com NOW! With a catalog of 12 million books, this is one network that you should not miss.

Price: Free
Link : http://bit.ly/OUm1hV
Android: 6.0+
In-app purchases: No
Rating: 3.2 (128k ratings)
Installs: Over 10 million
Contains ads: No
Size: 50Mb

Google Translate

While Duolingo helps you learn European languages, Google Translate helps you translate text and speech to a different language and this is done even when the phone is not connected to the internet. This is one application that I recommend to whose who love traveling across the globe. Google Translate can translate between 80 languages. You can provide speech, typed text, written script, text on a picture as a source and Translate will translate the same to whatever language you choose (from the support languages list). You can also save your translations and access them from any device.

Price: Free
Link : http://bit.ly/1dPxz1l
Android: Varies
In-app purchases: No
Rating: 4.4 (8.2 million ratings)
Installs: Over 1 billion
Contains ads: No
Size: Varies

Amazon Kindle

Ever since Amazon launched Kindle e-book readers, e-book store and application for various smartphone operating systems, there has been steady decline in sales of books made out of paper. I read more than 20 books in the year 2014 and out of them, 18 books were e-books and I read 17 of them on Google Play Books and Amazon Kindle applications. Gone are those days when you have to carry multiple books while traveling. Gone are those days when you have to fill cartons with your books collections when you reloate your home. Kindle is the best cross-platform e-book reader for book lovers. There are over a million free books and many more paid books on Kindle and Kindle store offers better pricing for majority of books when compared to competing apps/services. You can also subscribe to magazines, newspapers and read them on Kindle.

Price: Free
Link : http://bit.ly/1dqh0TJ
Android: 5.0+
In-app purchases: No
Rating: 4.6 (2.2 million ratings)
Installs: Over 100 million
Contains ads: Yes
Size: Varies

MX Player

Hardware acceleration, wide range of video encoding and formats support, gesture support and kids lock make MX Player the best video player available on Android. There isnt much to say here. If you want a great application that can play wide range of formats, this is the one to get.

Price: Free / Rs.370
Link : http://bit.ly/1bKkxk8 / http://bit.ly/1wJ0A2o
Android: Varies
In-app purchases: No
Rating: 4.1 (11 million ratings)
Installs: Over 1 billion
Contains ads: Yes
Size: Varies

Adobe Photoshop Express

Adobe Photoshop Express is one of the best photo editing and collage maker tool for easy, quick and powerful editing on mobile devices. Download and enjoy 60+ professional looks and advance corrections like Denoise and Defog for free.

Price: Free
Link : http://bit.ly/1eMDthg
Android: Varies
In-app purchases: ₹186.51 – ₹3,100.00 per item
Rating: 4.4 (1.8 million ratings)
Installs: Over 100 million
Contains ads: No
Size: Varies

Plex Media Streaming

Plex organizes all of your personal media, wherever you keep it, so you can enjoy it on any device. With Plex, you can easily stream your videos, music, photos and home movies to your Android phone or tablet from your home computer running Plex Media Server. Head to https://www.plex.tv, download plex server installer, install the same on a computer as a Plex Media Server. Once the server tool is online, connect your devices and you can sync media on phone or tablet or other PCs for offline viewing and you can also sync media to cloud services like Good Drive, Dropbox. When you pause a video on one device, you can continue the playback on another device. Plex also provides wide range of channels like TED, TWiT.

Price: Free
Link : http://bit.ly/1haxBS9
Android: Varies
In-app purchases: ₹65.00 – ₹13,200.00 per item
Rating: 3.9 (228k ratings)
Installs: Over 10 million
Contains ads: No
Size: Varies

Soundhound

Hearing a song, be it on radio or as a background tune in a tv show and not able to recognize the song name is one irritating feeling to have. In such situation, start this application, and let the app hear the song and recognize the song and if the song is over by the time you start the application, you can try singing or humming on your own. Soundhound will show live lyrics if the song is still playing in the background and you can save the discovery to the songs list, see music video if there is one avaiable and you can even go. Soundhound will also provide twiter/facebook udpates from your favourite artists.

Price: Free / Rs.370/-
Link : http://bit.ly/1d8spZB / http://bit.ly/1AfQviV
Android: Varies
In-app purchases: No
Rating: 4.1 (909k ratings)
Installs: Over 100 million
Contains ads: No
Size: Varies

Speedtest

Available on Android, iOS, Windows Phone and for web browsers, Speedtest is the app that you need if you want to check how fast your internet is and how it is when compared to other regions in the world.

Price: Free
Link : http://bit.ly/1caF4Jr
Android: 5.0+
In-app purchases: ₹62.63 – ₹420.00 per item
Rating: 4.2 (1.3 million ratings)
Installs: Over 100 million
Contains ads: Yes
Size: Varies

Swiftkey

With support for emojis, powerful prediction and correction algorithm and truckload of themes, SwiftKey is a must have virtual keyboard for Android users and the best part is that this is now a freeware with in-app purchases (for themes). You can save your customization and the learning that swiftkey did, to the cloud so that the next time you reset the phone or when you move to the phone, you dont have to teach SwiftKey your usage.

Price: Free
Link : http://bit.ly/1chQe4A
Android: 5.0+
In-app purchases: No
Rating: 4.2 (3.8 million ratings)
Installs: Over 500 million
Contains ads: No
Size: 51Mb

This application is in many ways similar to Whatsapp. But thanks to the new material UI based design, it has surpassed Whatsapp in usability. The best feature though is that you need not be near your phone to respond to messages. You can read and respond to messages from a PC browser, you can install Telegram on your Mac, Windows as a native application. This features has helped me many times and hence, this has been my primary internet messaging client.

price: Free
link: http://bit.ly/KEIqP0
Android : Varies
In-app purchases: None
Rating: 4.3 (10 million ratings)
Installs: Over 1 billion
Contains ads: No
Size: Varies

Unified Remote

If you have never tried application like this one, you better try this RIGHT NOW! Install Unified Remote server on your PC or Mac, install Android application on your phone/tablet. Make sure that both the devices are connected to same network. Once the server app on PC/mac is in sync with the client app on your phone/tablet, you can control various applications and desktop of your PC/Mac. For most popular app, you get similar looking remote control in Unified Android app. You can even use your phone/tablet as a trackpad to control mouse. There are 18 different remotes in free version and whopping 40 remotes in paid version. You can even use voice commands to control your PC/Mac, setup widgets to perform quick actions, create custom remotes and even perform NFC actions. Popular remotes include VLC, Keynote, YouTube, PowerPoint, WMC, iTunes, MediaMonkey etc.

Price: free/270
Link: http://bit.ly/1x5XzNY / http://bit.ly/1B6K2Fd
Size: Varies
Android: 4.1+
In-app purchases: No
Rating: 4.2 (132k ratings)
Installs: Over 10 million
Contains ads: Yes
Size: 6.2M

uTorrent

For those who love downloading torrents on their phone, utorrent is best application for Android. Do note that downloading pirated and copyrighted material is illegal and can land you in jail. Also, the way a torrent downloads, this can stress the phone’s memory to the maximum. provides simple search and discovery, download and content playback. Thanks to the integration with BitTorrent’s licensed content, you can download media without breaking any rules. You can also subscribe to RSS feeds on content, play downloaded music files in a playlist using integrated media player.

Price: Free
Link: http://bit.ly/1ig8wab
Android: 5.0+
In-app purchases: ₹260.00 per item
Rating: 4.4 (4.8 million ratings)
Installs: Over 100 million
Contains ads: Yes
Size: 14M

Wattpad

Not every one gets a chance to publish their story by collaborating with major publishers. Wattpad is a place for such writers who can share their stories for others to read. With 75 million stories to read, 35 million registered users, Wattpad is world’s largest community of readers and writers. While goodreads is a social network to discuss about books, Wattpad is a network where writers showcase their talent. Wattpad can be access from a web browser and using iOS and Android applications.

Price: Free
Link: http://bit.ly/1eu1dba
Android: Varies
In-app purchases: ₹29.00 – ₹8,100.00 per item
Rating: 4.3 (4.4 million ratings)
Installs: Over 100 million
Contains ads: Yes
Size: Varies

Zombies,Run!

Running with music on is so old style. Running from Zombies is the new style. Put your running shoes on, connect headphones and start the application ‘Zombies, Run!’. The application starts a story with various missions that you have to finish and you do that by running. Sometimes, the feeling is so surreal that you actually feel as if the zombies are right behind you and breathing down your neck. This is the best fitness app with a twist. 33 missions, custom music playlists, storyline where you save hundreds of lives, detailed statistics, export/share session detail using zombie link. What more do you need from a fitness app!

Price: Free
Link: http://bit.ly/1cKl4Fc
Android: Varies
In-app purchases: ₹50.00 – ₹8,300.00 per item
Rating: 4.2 (24k ratings)
Installs: Over 1 million
Contains ads: Yes
Size: Varies

Sky Map

Price: Free
Link: Play Store
Android: Varies
In-app purchases: No
Rating: 4.3 (487k ratings)
Installs: Over 50 million
Contains ads: No
Size: Varies

Podcasts

With Google Podcasts, you can play the latest episodes from your favourite shows, explore podcast recommendations just for you and manage your listening activity.

Price: Free
Link: Play Store
Android: Varies
In-app purchases: No
Rating: 4.3 (534k ratings)
Installs: Over 100 million
Contains ads: No
Size: Varies

PhonePe

PhonePe is a payments app that allows you to use BHIM UPI, your credit card and debit card or to recharge your mobile phone, pay all your utility bills and also make instant payments at your favourite offline and online stores. You can also invest in mutual funds and buy insurance plans on PhonePe.

Price: Free
Link: Play Store
Android: Varies
In-app purchases: No
Rating: 4.3 (7.8 million ratings)
Installs: Over 100 million
Contains ads: Yes
Size: Varies

OneDrive

OneDrive is the one place for everything in your work and personal life. It gives you free online storage for all your personal files so you can get to them from your Android device, computer (PC or Mac), and any other devices you use. With OneDrive for Business, you also get storage for your work files so you can share and collaborate on them with other people at your work or school. The OneDrive app for Android lets you easily work with your personal and work files when you’re on the go:

Price: Free
Link: Play Store
Android: 6.0+
In-app purchases: ₹140.00 – ₹6,199.00 per item
Rating: 4.4 (2.697 million ratings)
Installs: Over 1 billion
Contains ads: No
Size: Varies

Feedly

Your central place to organize, read, and share the information you need to stay ahead of the next big trend in your industry. Every day, millions of professionals and passionate learners use Feedly on their phones and tablets to follow the blogs, magazines, and other sources that matter to them.

Price: Free
Link: Play Store
Android: 5.1+
In-app purchases: ₹650.00 – ₹6,200.00 per item
Rating: 4.1 (311k ratings)
Installs: Over 5 million
Contains ads: Yes
Size: 95Mb

Audible

Listen to the world’s bestsellers. Choose from an incredible selection of Audible Originals, podcasts and audiobooks to download and enjoy. Listen to as many titles as you want from the Plus Catalogue. Need more? Build your own library by getting an audiobook every month with your monthly credits to download and keep forever.

Price: Free
Link: Play Store
Android: 6.0+
In-app purchases: ₹65.00 – ₹220.00 per item
Rating: 4.3 (1.28 million ratings)
Installs: Over 100 million
Contains ads: No
Size: 30Mb

Adobe Scan

The Adobe Scan scanner app turns your device into a powerful portable scanner that recognises text automatically (OCR) and allows you to save to multiple files formats including PDF and JPEG.

Price: Free
Link: Play Store
Android: Varies
In-app purchases: ₹820.00 – ₹850.00 per item
Rating: 4.6 (1.9 million ratings)
Installs: Over 50 million
Contains ads: No
Size: Varies

Microsoft Office 365 with OneDrive

Microsoft Office brings you Word, Excel, and PowerPoint all in one app. Take advantage of a seamless experience with Microsoft tools on the go with the Office app, the simple solution for productivity.

Link: http://bit.ly/1gmzVCI
Price: Free
Android: Varies
In-app purchases: ₹489.00 – ₹6,199.00 per item
Rating: 4.5 (911k ratings)
Installs: Over 500 million
Contains ads: No
Size: Varies

You can also try these amazing applications that add a bit of fun and geekism to your Android world.

Any.do

To-Do list application cannot get any simpler than this one. The interface is clean and yet is filled with features. You can organize your todo’s, family tasks, work projects and also collaborate with others in finishing tasks. You can attached photos, videos, audio and Dropbox files to the task. If you are too lazy to type the content, you can speak out for any.do to change the voice to text. Any.do can be accessed from a smartphone, as a web app and from Chrome browser. When you pay for premium subscription ($4.99/ month or $49.99/ year), you can setup location based reminders, heavily customize reminders.

Link: http://bit.ly/1gmzVCI
Price: Free
Android: Varies
In-app purchases: ₹51.00 – ₹5,520.00 per item
Rating: 4.4 (416k ratings)
Installs: Over 10 million
Contains ads: Yes
Size: Varies

Applock

Worried about someone playing your favorite game and ruin it? Worried about someone taking your phone and going through your messages and photos list? With applock application, you can lock the applications so that the applications can be opened after entering a pre-set pin. You can also hide your photos and videos from prying eyes.

Link: http://bit.ly/1coQMDT
Price: Free
Android: 4.1+
In-app Purchases : ₹85.00 – ₹17,600.00 per item
Rating: 4.0 (80k ratings)
Installs: Over 10 million
Contains ads: Yes
Size: 22M

Camera360

With hundreds of filters, a dozen camera modes , skin smoothening and other features that enhance skin tone, editing tools and unlimited cloud album, Camera 360 is simply the best alternate camera application available for Android devices. Best part is that the application is free to use and there are no ads.

Price: Free
Link: http://bit.ly/1gBqGxx
Android: 5.0+
In-app purchases: ₹55.00 – ₹2,550.00 per item
Rating: 4.3 (5 million ratings)
Installs: Over 100 million
Contains ads: Yes
Size: 153M

Couch-to-5k

There are countless guides, books and webpages that help you succeed in completing a 5k marathon. This application is the best one among such applications for Android. The training plan is created by experienced trainers from active.com and is designed to make sure that runners are not injured by over-workouts. You can also track your progress, share progress to facebook.

Price: 190/-
Link : http://bit.ly/1kBG9lI
Android: 6.0+
In-app purchases: ₹200.00 – ₹5,300.00 per item
Rating: 4.3 (53k ratings)
Installs: Over 1 million
Contains ads: Yes
Size: 104M

DoubleTwist

DoubleTwist is one of the best music players available for Android. Best features of DoubleTwist that is that you can sync music and playlists from iTunes over USB or using AirSync over Wi-Fi. In case you dont have album artwork, the same can be downloaded for free. DoubleTwist also supports and subscription to podcasts, download podcasts automatically over 3G/WiFi. Other features include streaming vidoes/photos/music to Xbox, PS3 and Sonos.

Price: Fee
Link : http://bit.ly/1gjJJPd
Android: 4.1+
In-app purchases: ₹99.99 – ₹1,599.00 per item
Rating: 4.4 (185k ratings)
Installs: Over 10 million
Contains ads: Yes
Size: 27M

Tasker

Tasker is similar to AutomateIT in many ways. Using Tasker, you can automate actions/tasks, there are hundreds of built-in actions, the application supports plugins. You can export projects as applications where each project contains multiple tasks. For example, you can create an application that, when you reach your home, will connect to your bluetooth home stereo and start playing songs or when you go to a gym, start fitness application, disable notifications and open the music application for you to play music.

price: Rs.310
link: http://bit.ly/1i0IuDw
Android: varies
In-app purchases: No
Rating: 4.5 (51k ratings)
Installs: Over 1 million
Contains ads: No
Size: varies

TED

TED’s official Android app presents talks from some of the world’s most fascinating people: education radicals, tech geniuses, medical mavericks, business gurus, and music legends. Find more than 1700 TEDTalk videos and audios (with more added each week) on the official TED app — now for tablets and smartphones. Fully translated and localized in 22 languages

price: Free
link: http://bit.ly/JFm8fj
Android : 5.0+
In-app purchases: No
Rating: 4.5 (211k ratings)
Installs: Over 10 million
Contains ads: Yes
Size: 50Mb

Waze

Waze is not just another maps application where you check maps and set route to get turn-by-turn navigation. Waze is a community driven mapping application that provides maps, real-time traffic data, road info, live alerts on accidents, hazards, police traps, road blocks etc. As a contributor, you can edit the maps, provide information on local places and businesses, add events and as you add more data, you accumulate points and climb the ranks in your community. Waze also supports voice guided turn-by-turn navigation. The best feature of Waze that sets it apart from other maps application is that you can set the route, send the route and your ETA to your friends so that they can check your ETA and the route you are taking.

Link: http://bit.ly/IPmVcC
Price: free
Android: 5.0+
In-app purchases: no
Rating: 4.1 (8.5 million ratings)
Installs: Over 100 million
Contains ads: Yes
Size: 85Mb